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So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
Sidney Poitier
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Sidney Poitier
Age: 97
Born: 1927
Born: February 20
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I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
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I defend myself by improving myself.
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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
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Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
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So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
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Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.
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If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.
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I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.
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I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
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Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.
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When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
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I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
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I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what a human is, so I was never able to see racism as the big question. Racism was horrendous, but there were other aspects to life.
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